Word: knute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks younger) and also a second-year Cadet. He was just about the best schoolboy athlete ever grown in Southern California. At Claremont, a citrus-belt town of well-manicured lawns and ivy-covered homes, his high-school sports were football, baseball, basketball and track. He won the Knute Rockne Trophy for being Southern California's outstanding schoolboy track star...
...Inscribed on the trophy is the late great Knute Rockne's favorite poem...
Cigar-chewing, grey-haired West Pointer Twining is an old footballer, likes to have ex-athletes on his staffs. When he replacedable Curtis LeMay in Guam last week, he said of his new command: "It's like taking over the Notre Dame football team from Knute Rockne...
...over Stanford, Iowa Pre-Flight and Illinois. That time, he admits, he was so scared the kids had to calm him down. This time, the happy-go-lucky Texan (he played for Texas Tech) has half-kidded, half-finessed his man-sized freshmen into blocking and tackling the way Knute Rockne's veterans once...
...Modesty forbids," grinned Knute Rockne when asked to name football's greatest coach. "But if I can name the two best football coaches in America, one of them is going to be Clark Shaughnessy...